I think the more fantasy romance that I read, the less I’m able to overlook the things that tend to bother me about them, and one of those things is a huge factor in my rating of this book.

Nothing yanks me out of a story faster than when an author chooses to devote page after page after page in the middle of a chapter to a character’s inner thoughts. (It’s usually when they’re trying to come to a decision about something, or attempting to process conflicting emotions, etc.)

I understand the need to communicate to your readers what’s happening to your characters internally, but I feel like that can be done without spoon-feeding it to us (often through redundant use of leading, rhetorical questions).

So overall, my main problem with this was that it was over-written. By the end I was skimming. I did like Mal’s character though.